Saturday, September 3, 2005

Information on missing persons is in hundreds of forums accross the web.

If a thousand people spend just one hour today entering information from forums into a database, hurricane victims will have a much easier time finding out the status of friends and loved ones.

We have a repository for this data at http://www.neworleansnetwork.org/ a grassroots website built with grassroots technology (CiviSpace & CiviCRM) by grassroots folks Radical Designs and League of Pissed Off Voters.Step One:Figure out how were going to coordinate a massively parallel volunteer data entry effort.Sites that need to be entered by hand (we can't write software that will put their information in our database) are tagged in delicious.http://del.icio.us/tag/peoplefinder+unstructured

Step Two:Write clear instructions on how to participate.

Step Three:Let as many people know about it as possible.

We are on step one. Send me an email at dgeilhufe at-- sourcialsourcefoundation dot-- org to help with the planning.